I hate to sound daft, here, but how do I get my turrets/lasers to fire in X3:AP? I notice the flight school wants me to shoot a crate ... but I can't because I have no weapons installed on the ship, at first. When I go to Argon Prime and buy something (I tried both a mining laser and the other turret/laser weapon they had there, unfortunately I cannot remember the name), and neither worked. Yes, I realize a mining laser should probably be used on an asteroid, so I tried that as well. In fact, that's all I was really interested in doing: mining. But I can't. The game controls say the left mouse button or the right control key on my keyboard should make my weapons fire ... but it doesn't! I made sure the weapon installed properly on my ship, but still no dice and I can't understand why. Any help would be greatly appreciated! And again, sorry if this sounds like a complete neophyte question, but I am at my wits' end and could think of no more informed and expert community to turn to than here on the X-forums!

What ship are you using? If you are in a Mercury, you only have a turret. Press F1 to get to turret view.

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In order to get turrets to fire automatically, you must have Fight Command Software installed on your ship. Then go into your ship's command console (shift+c) and, select the turret you want to activate, then select the command you want to run on it. They're pretty self-explanatory, but you can highlight a command and press the 'i' key to get a short description of each one.

But turret commands are only designed for combat (i.e. if you want to protect your ship or destroy others). If you want to mine then you have to do what WeriTis said.

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